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The 2026 Multi-ConTEXT International Graduate Conference
“Interweaving Voices and Worlds: English Studies in Transformative Contexts”
Society for the Study of Affect (SSA)
#MAKE: Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies
Vancouver, BC, October 23 to 25, 2026
Abstracts due May 29, 2026
Submit here: https://affectsociety.com/make/conference/?submit=paper&stream_id=30
This panel examines how writers challenge dominant structures of authority in/through narratives of sexual violence. Legal and cultural frameworks often dictate how sexual violence is recognized, narrated, and believed, shaping whose stories are legible and whose are dismissed. This session explores how survivors and writers resist these constraints through alternative narrative strategies, fragmentation, silence, poetic form, visual storytelling and more. It attends to how narrative operates as a site of power, shaping not only representation but the conditions under which sexual violence is acknowledged, legitimized, or denied.
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR DIALOG JOURNAL
Special Issue No. 47
Theme: Creative Afterlives of Texts
dialog, a fully peer-reviewed, bi-annual international journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, invites submissions for its forthcoming special issue (No. 47) on “Creative Afterlives of Texts.” The journal provides a forum for interdisciplinary research engaging literature, culture, and critical theory.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Meta Mazaj, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Katarzyna Marciniak, Occidental College
Call for Papers
CFP: Football and Performance
Editors: Eero Laine, Noe Montez, and Shannon Walsh
We are currently seeking chapter abstracts for an edited volume on football and performance. Theatre and performance studies allow us a unique view towards the ways that sports extend into civic space, politics, and daily life. How can the disciplines of theatre, dance, and performance studies serve as an analytic for sport, generally, and American football, in particular?
The CFP for "Language Teaching and Technology: From Gaming to AI" is now open via this link for the PAMLA 2026 conference, from the 12th to the 15th of November 2026, in Seattle.
Issue 14.2:The Cultural Labor of Internationalism: Reorienting Solidarities in Times of StruggleEdited by Yawen Li, Ajay Bhardwaj, Anup Grewal, and Nicolai Volland. Deadlines | verge@psu.eduConvergence proposals: September 30, 2026Essays: May 15, 2027On the Theme As militarism, authoritarianism, and chauvinistic nationalism ascend globally, and “Asia” becomes a contested site in geopolitical rivalries, the need to imagine alternative forms of solidarity, including forms of grassroots internationalism, becomes ever more urgent.
Literature/Film Quarterly (LFQ) is an internationally recognized, open-access journal specializing in adaptation studies. Published entirely online, LFQ makes all content freely available to readers worldwide. We publish quarterly and manuscripts often progress from initial submission through peer review to publication in less than one year. 2023 marked our 50th year of continuous publication. Visit our website for current issues, online archives (dating to 2017), and complete submission guidelines: https://lfq.salisbury.edu/
Please see here for full details: https://www.wethecivic.org/submit
Scroll to the bottom of this page for submission form: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/wtc/
Essays, Reported Pieces, Criticism, Art & Visual, Video & Hybrid Forms
In 2026, the United States marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence—a document that promised liberty and justice for all and delivered them to very few.
This anniversary will be loud. It will be choreographed.
And Nonprofit Quarterly, in community with nonprofit and media partners, will contest it.
The Phenomenology of the Stand-up Comic: Toward a Sociology of Gendered Humour
CFP 2026 · De/Naturated
Genealogies of the Natural, Forms of the Artificial, Ecologies of the Limit
What do we call “nature”? And what political, social, biological, and symbolic orders are historically legitimized in its name?
Chapter proposals are invited for an edited collection that examines how race and ethnicity have been imagined, negotiated, and represented in Irish children’s and young adult literature — and in literature by young people — from 1600 to 2000. This volume builds directly on the 2025 Irish Studies Review special issue on race, ethnicity, and representation in 21st-century Irish youth literature which was the first full-length scholarly publication to map this under-researched field. The special issue demonstrated the richness and urgency of examining how difference, belonging, and alterity are conceptualised in contemporary Irish youth texts, and highlighted the need for deeper historical contextualisation and research.
Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:
- travel and gender/race/class
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- the impacts of the political climate on travel
Call for Papers: Edited Volume on Adoption in Popular Media
deadline for submissions:
June 15, 2026
full name / name of organization:
Stacy Fowler / St. Mary’s University
contact email:
International Conference for PhD Students and Young Researchers
UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI
6-7 OCTOBER 2026
«Maligno animo et lingua detractoria»:
the Art of Slander from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age
Call for Chapter Contributions
An Edited Volume: Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Editor: Dr. Gabrie’l J. Atchison
Proposed Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.
As the series editor for Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives for Bloomsbury Publishing, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North America (MENA).
Poverty in the South is too often discussed at a distance. Flattened into stereotype, policy language, nostalgia, or shame, it is rarely given the complexity, dignity, and literary force it deserves.
Hand to Mouth seeks new work by Southern writers whose lives have been shaped by poverty. We are interested in writing that reflects on poverty as lived experience, inherited condition, social structure, class passage, stigma, kinship, resourcefulness, hunger, desire, labor, and survival.
Mike Flanagan has emerged over the past fifteen years as one of the most prolific and recognizable horror creators in film and television, working across low-budget independent cinema, studio-backed films, and prestige limited series. Yet despite his prominence, versatility, and authorial trademarks, especially his collaborations with recurring actors and other artistic partners, he has received little sustained scholarly attention.
Call for Papers
University of Delaware’s 8th CMCS Conference in Material Culture
April 2-3, 2027
What’s the Matter with Description?
Form, Practice, and Material Culture
Keynote Speaker
Susan Stewart
(Princeton University)
The annual graduate student conference organized by the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California is now accepting applications. Submission deadline is June 1, 2026.
This year’s conference invites proposals that engage broadly with the theme, Delirium.
It will take place on October 23–24, 2026, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, with Professor Eugenie Brinkema joining for the Keynote.
We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines and methodological approaches, including creative works.
The tenth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will take place on Friday, October 23, 2026, invites proposals for papers on Han Kang’s 2014 novel Human Acts (original title: 소년이 온다, or A Boy Comes; English translation by Deborah Smith). The Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient theoretical, historical, political, and narratological questions about the novel as a genre. (See the 2025 BNS websiteand this archive for more information about the BNS.)
2027 marks the 50th anniversary of the film now generally known as Episode IV: A New Hope, the first instalment in the hugely successful Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. As beloved as it is divisive, Star Wars now straddles multiple decades and generations while proliferating across narrative media (novels, comics, games, animation, TV). It provides a series of compelling case studies in the relationship between creativity and commerce, from the foundation of Lucasfilm during the New Hollywood period to the 21st century Disney-era, and it has developed via a complex interplay between cutting-edge technological innovation, nostalgia, and mythmaking.
The second International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2026) is going to be held 28-30 July 2026, Manchester, UK. (https://glecc.org/2026/). The submission deadline has now been extended to May 18, 2026.
Keynote speakers confirmed:
1. “Translation, Chinese Texts, and World Literature” by Professor Yifeng Sun, University of Macau, China.
2. “Confucianism's Global Potential: Fresh Perspectives on Fathering From the Sixth Century to Now” by Dr Derek Hird, Lancaster University, UK.
Kala Pani Crossings #4:
Jahaji bhai / Jahaji behen: Fraught Legacies, New Kinships, Reimagined Solidarities
Institut Français de Pondicherry / French Institute of Pondicherry
in partnership with EMMA (University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry),
IHRIM (ENS-Lyon, France), VALE (Sorbonne University)
& DIRE and LCF (University of Reunion Island)
Dates: February 16-17, 2027
Venue: IFP (French Institute of Pondicherry)
The 2026 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: “Artists On/Off the Record: Living Archives and Embodied Memory”
ImprovLab, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
September 10-11, 2026
Deadline for Abstracts: May 31, 2026
Call for Contributions and Book Reviews for PSA
Newsletter #35: Postcolonial/Decolonial Water Stories
We invite submissions exploring the dynamic intersections between colonialism (past and ongoing)
and water/waterscapes through a humanities perspective. As many scholars have pointed out,
“Unequal access to water and the political processes that direct management are fundamentally
rooted in colonialism” (Hartwig, Jackson, Markham & Osborne 2023, p. 31) Water – oceans, rivers,
seas, and wetlands – has long been central to colonial histories, shaping routes of conquest,
migration, trade, and resistance. In literary texts and other cultural productions, waterscapes often
As Section Editor for The Latinx and Hispanic Experience, I am reaching out to invite you to submit a chapter to this section of the forthcoming volume, The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, edited by Dr. James S. Bridgeforth, Dr. Jamie Penven, and Dr. Theodore Ransaw.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Green Wall: Narrating Ethnicity, Belonging, and Environmental Nativism in South Asian Cultural Production
Guest Editors
Dr. Mansi Bose, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India
&
Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India
Rationale
Intégrité is a scholarly journal published biannually by the Faith and Learning Committee and the Humanities Division at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri. Published both online (https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/integrite/) and in print, it welcomes essays for a special issue (Fall 2027) on “Elvis Presley and Theology.”
2027 marks the 50th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on August 16, 1977.
SPECTATOR 47.1 — SPEED - CALL FOR PAPERS/BOOK REVIEWS
DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Spectator is seeking papers and reviews for issue 47.1, Speed, themed around USC’s 2025 First Forum Conference on the same topic organized by Minji Kim and Tanushree Sharma. Their call for submissions on this theme is copied below:
The contemporary moment is often thought of synonymously with the idea of speed. The 20th
and 21st centuries were marked by rapidly ascending rates of movement: the movement of
Adolfo Ibáñez University and the consortium of institutions sponsoring this event are delighted to invite you to the 2027 World Congress of the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, centered on the theme “Global Imaginaries, Maritime Power, and Intercontinental Circulations: the Ambivalent Legacies of the Long Nineteenth Century.” The congress will be held in Viña del Mar, overlooking the port city of Valparaíso.
Contemporary social, ecological, technological, and existential crises compel a rethinking of what it means to exist, to coexist, and to take form in a posthuman world.
Geomythology is an emerging field invented by the geoscientist Dorothy Vitaliano in 1968 but has ancient roots in figures such as the mythographer Euhemerus (3rd century B.C.) as well as modern predecessors like Robert Hooke (1635-1703), the “English Leonardo,” and Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), the father of modern paleontology. It has been featured in recent panels at literary and scientific conferences. Geomythology seeks to discover proto-scientific information in ancient and medieval myths, legends, and tales. Often, this information is encoded in stories originally told by eyewitnesses to make sense of traumatic events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis.
Call for Papers
Edited Volume on Religion, Transhumanism, and Posthumanism
Working Title:
Gods and men? Post- and Transhumanism in Interfaith Perspective
Overview
We invite contributions to an edited academic volume offering a critical theological reflection on transhumanism and posthumanism from an interfaith perspective. While these developments have already generated a growing body of religious and theological responses, this volume seeks to move beyond initial engagements by critically assessing their assumptions, methods, and conclusions.
Second and Final Call for papers
Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie
Academic conference, University of Agder, Norway 29. – 30. September 2026
Call for Papers: Eldridge Bulletin of Advanced Inquiry | Arts and Humanities Series | London, UK
Inaugural Issue (General Topic)
Submission Deadline: 31 May 2026
#OpenAccess
Reduced publication fees available for this issue.
Web: https://london-ap.uk/eldridge-bulletin/humanities/
Email: eldridge@lapub.co.uk
Textual Embodiments: Remediating Meaning Across the Disciplines
Rome Link Campus University, September 11-12, 2026
Call for Papers: Representation of Violence in South Asian Graphic Narratives and Comics
Dear colleagues,
Are you planning your summer writing projects—or revising an article and considering where to submit it? The editors of Nineteenth Century Studies are now accepting submissions for the 2027 volume. The deadline for consideration is October 1, 2026; submissions received after this date may be considered for the 2028 volume.
Call for Chapters
Edited Volume: Chornobyl in Video Games: Memory, Simulation, and Post-Apocalyptic Play
Editor: Yaraslau Kot
Affiliation: Assistant Professor at University of Warsaw; Researcher at European Humanities University
Publisher: [TBA]
Call for Submissions: Invisibility & The Raft of Hope: A 75th-Anniversary Reflection on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Deadline: June 15, 2026
Contact: qal0815@utulsa.edu
STREAM STREAM ORGANIZER(S)
Meha Gupta CUNY Graduate Center mgupta@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Soham Sen University of New Mexico sen.soham.26@gmail.com
"Let Us Tell An Old Story Anew": Revising / Reinventing / Reimagining Disney
Disney’s Maleficent (2014), a live-action retelling of their animated classic, Sleeping Beauty (1957), begins with a narrator challenging us to re-see the stories we’ve been told before. The entire movie, in fact, revolves around correcting past perceptions, ones that Disney originally shaped and is now choosing to reshape. Maleficent is just one example of a spate of live-action remakes and other ways Disney has reimagined itself in the twenty-first century. Such reimaginings invite research into how and why Disney feels the need to make us see them anew.
Chênière journal call-for-papers
Volume 10
Chênière, an online, interdisciplinary undergraduate journal based at Nicholls State University, invites papers for its tenth volume. Chênière is an MLA-indexed journal that welcomes submissions from any humanities field, broadly speaking, from history, communication, English, religion, art, music, and everything in between. The journal welcomes submissions from any undergraduate work but particularly caters to students from the Gulf Coast and the American South, broadly speaking. The subject matter for this issue is completely open topic.
The history of work and labour has long occupied a central place within European social history, offering a key lens through which to examine social relations, hierarchies, forms of power, and economic formations across the longue durée. Rather than approaching work solely as an economic function, historical scholarship has increasingly foregrounded work as a lived social experience –one that has shaped identities, values, and modes of belonging.
Dear colleagues and friends,
We warmly invite scholars to submit papers for the DPRK Cities Research Group’s 5th International Conference at the Soongsil Institute for Peace and Unification, Soongsil University, supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
This conference explores how marketization, technological change, and governance reshape civic space and everyday life in cities under authoritarian and transitional regimes. Moving beyond state-level analysis, it focuses on cities as key sites where control, adaptation, and agency are negotiated in practice.
This panel invites discussions of Steinbeck's complicated imagination of American life and culture in his novels and nonfiction. Alternately fraught and adoring, critical and laudatory, his works attend with specificity to Americanness as a unique and discernible identity in the first half of the twentieth century. Especially encouraged are papers that attend to the tensions and disjunctures in Steinbeck’s descriptions of American society, including his treatment of gender, decolonial readings of his novels, and approaches that expose often contradictory relationships that extend among people, places, and power in his body of work.
Part of the PAMLA Conference in Seattle, WA from November 12, 2026 - November 15, 2026.
Call for Papers Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror International Interdisciplinary Conference 29 th – 30th June and 1st July, 2026 https://speculativenarratives.com/ NEW Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10th May 2026Venue: Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal Conference Organisers: Popular Culture Group We invite scholars, researchers, and artists to submit abstracts for the upcoming academic conference, Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror.
Call for Papers
SMU’s ERAH Graduate Conference
English | History | Anthropology
Date: October 10-11, 2026
Location: SMU Main Campus, Dallas, TX
Theme: Movement & Borderlands
Submission Deadline: August 28, 2026
Keynotes: Dr. Tim Bowman | Dr. Elda María Román